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Structural Development Accounting
Gancia, Gino A; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Technical Progress and Early Retirement
Ahituv, Avner; Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This Paper claims that technical progress induces early retirement of older workers. It supports this claim both theoretically and empirically. We present a model where part of human capital is technology-specific, so that technical progress erodes some existing human capital. This affects...
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The Division of Labour Within Firms
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labour within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788938
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Reorganization of Firms and Labour Market Inequality
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We show how recent technological advances in physical and human capital can lead to the breakdown of occupational barriers, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and...
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Restructuring Production and Work
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their …
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The Effect of Temporary Contracts on Human Capital Accumulation in Chile
Carpio, Susana; Giuliodori, David; Rucci, Graciana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
temporary workers that obtain an open-ended contract is low. Second, the productivity growth in Chile after 1997 is practically … zero and human capital accumulation is one of the factors that might help to recover the path of productivity growth. …
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Innovación agropecuaria en América Latina y el Caribe: Escenarios y mecanismos institucionales
Trigo, Eduardo; Mateo, Nicolás; Falconi, César - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
La agricultura y la alimentación enfrentan un reposicionamiento en el contexto de los desafíos asociados a los objetivos del Milenio. También desde la perspectiva del desarrollo se considera central identificar el rol que el sector debe desempeñar en el combate a la pobreza en un mundo cada...
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Identification and Governance Policies: The Legal, Technical, and Institutional Foundations that Influence the Relations and Interactions of the Citizen with the Government and Soc...
Harbitz, Mia Elisabeth; Axt, Iván Arcos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This IDB technical note seeks to highlight the relationship that exists between a country's level of governance, the success of digital government strategies, and the identification policies that government implements, as well as the interdependence between them. Belgium, Chile, and Mexico were...
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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs
Cockburn, Iain M; Lanjouw, Jean O; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...
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